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SHIPPING DRUM.

No. 327,589. Patented Oot.-6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE JAMES H. PREATER, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

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.BEECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent No. 327,589, dated Oetoker 6, 1885.

Application filed May 1B, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. PREATER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,have invented an Improvement in Shipping-Drums, of which the following is a specification.

Drums haveheretofore heen made for holding various articles-such as teas, coffees, spices,&c.the said drums being composed of straw-boards or mill-boards rolled up inte a cylindrical form and the ends united, there being a Wooden head and a wooden bottom. These drums often require to be shipped from the place where they are manufactured to a distantplace,where they are lled. The transportation of the empty drums is expensive because of the great bulk or space occupied.

My improvement is especially intended for lessening the bulk of the drums; and it relates to a knockdown drum that may be shipped from the place of manufacture to the place of lling at very little expense.

I roll up the sheet of straw or mill board into a cylindrical form, after having cut it to the proper size and shape, and I connect with one edge of the cylinder strips of sheet metal folded backwardly and joined together for the reception of the edges of the straw or mill board; and I also use a folded strip of sheet metal near the other edge of the board, and a folded sheetmetal junction-piece to unite the backwardly folded edges of the sheet metal at the inner surface of the cylinder. ri`he drum is provided with hoops at the ends and top and bottom heads,so that the drum can be put together; but for the purposes of shipment the sheets of straw or other boards are laid out one upon the other, ready to be put together at their destination.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of the package or drum complete. Fig. 2 is a section, in magnified size at the ends, of the straw or other board forming the cylinder, where such ends are brought together, and Fig. 3 is a similar' view with the end parts of the cylinder slightly separated from each other.

In Letters Patent No. 223,949, issued to lne January 27,1880, a jacket is shown for a drum, the edges of thejacket being drawn together Serial NoA 105,813. (No model.)

and united by a folded sheet-metal slide upon the outside of the jacket, that is slipped endwise over the edges of the folded metallic strips attached to and inelosing the strawboard. The folded sheet-metal j unction-piece is only adapted for holding together the edges of the jacket.

In my present improvement A represents the cylindrical portion of the drum, the same being made of straw or other board of suitable size, and at the edges of the straw or other board,where they come together, folded metallic strips C D D are attached.

The strip C is provided with hook-shaped bands E, that are passed through incisions made in and parallel with the edges of the straw-board,so that said strip C is held to the straw-board in a very firm manner by bending up and clinching the ends of the hookshaped bands.

The metal strips D D at the opposite edge of the straw-board are made of U-shaped pieces of sheet metal set together and soldered at n. The strip D is adapted to receive and be permanently attached to the edge of the straw-board A. For this purpose pieces of sheet metall are passed through incisions in the straw board and folded upon themselves toward the edge of the board, so as to clinch the straw-board, and these pieces of metal Z are passed within the U-shaped portion D and united by solder applied at r.

The strip D is folded back at its edge, as seen at s, and there is a folded sheet-metal slide orjunction-piece, T, that is slipped endwise over the folded edges of the pieces C and D, so as to unite the edges of the straw or other board and hold the same in a cylindrical form. By withdrawing thisjunction-piece T the straw or other board A can be laid out flat, or nearly so, for transportation, and said edges are easily united again in the form of a cylinder by rolling or bending up the parts and slipping on the junction-piece T after the exposed edge ot' the cylinder A is passed into the U-shaped piece of sheet metal D.

The wooden base or bottom R and the top V are circular, with shoulders for the reception of the ends of the cylinder A, and the hoops P and Q are placed around the outside IOL of the cylinder A,at the ends thereof, as seen in Fig. l, yand small :nails are employed, as at 2 and 3, to connect the parts together.

I elaim'as my invention- 1. The cylinder A, of straw or mill board, in combination With the sheet-metal strip G, attached to one edge of the said straw-board, and having its edge folded ovei` the metal strips D D', that are U-shaped and united together and securely attached to the othei` edge of the said cylinder, one edge of the strip D being folded loaek and the folded sheet-metal junction-strip T, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination,in a drum,oi` a cylinder of straw-board or similar material, two U- shaped strips of sheet metal, DD', set baek to back and soldered, the strip D being adapted to receive and be united to one edge lof the straw-board, the sheet-metal strip C,

JAS. I-I. PREATER.

W'itnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mom". 

